University of North Carolina Athletics
Men's Soccer Team to be Featured on Good Morning America
April 23, 2002 | Men's Soccer
April 23, 2002
CHAPEL HILL- ABC's "Good Morning America," featuring anchors Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer, will broadcast its entire show from the University of North Carolina on Monday (April 29) from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Members of Carolina's 2001 men's soccer national championship team, led by head coach Elmar Bolowich, will be featured on the show.
The Carolina campus will be the first of five stops across the United States next week as part of a yearlong project called "50 States-One Nation-One Year," which is giving viewers of "Good Morning America" and other ABC news programs a look at real life in America. Other cities being featured next week are Stillwater, Minn., Houston, Napa Valley, Calif., and Boston.
Monday's program will originate from UNC's Polk Place, one of the historic quadrangles on north campus. Among current program plans are segments from the Rare Book Room in Wilson Library, which houses the university library's world-renowned special collections, as well as live appearances in Polk Place and from the Pit, a popular student hangout, and the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower. Scheduled guests to date include the UNC cheerleading squad, the men's soccer team, school mascots and university choral groups.
"Next Monday represents an exciting opportunity to host a popular national program with Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson, two highly respected journalists," said Chancellor James Moeser. "I am pleased a national audience will see the beauty of Polk Place in the spring and meet part of the Carolina community. It's fitting the rest of the nation will get an excellent glimpse of what makes this campus and its people so special."
Carolina students, faculty and staff will make up the majority of the live audience, Gibson, Sawyer, and weather anchor Tony Perkins will be interacting with them throughout the broadcast. The campus community is welcome to come and watch the live broadcast from Polk Place, the quadrangle located between South Building and Wilson Library, as well as the other north campus sites.
esides the UNC segments, Monday's program also is expected to feature stories on the North Carolina furniture industry, NASCAR families and additional pre-taped segments from Duke and N.C. State universities.
Monday's program will be the fourth time "Good Morning America" has broadcast live from the Carolina campus. In 1988, the campus was the setting for a show on the issue of education in the presidential race between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Former "Good Morning America" weather anchor Spencer Christian has visited Chapel Hill twice for live segments-first in 1995 as part of a program on North Carolina, the Research Triangle and "The New South" and again in 1998 for weather reports and a live feature with Mildred Council, "Mama Dip," a popular Chapel Hill restaurant owner.
"Good Morning America," seen locally on WTVD each weekday from 7 to 9 a.m. in the Triangle, is the second-highest rated morning show.
